The ISIN and its partners at the Invasive Species Specialist Group (ISSG) of the World Conservation Union's Species Survival Commission and the Conservation Management Institute (CMI) of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University are working together to develop and provide online invasive species profiles through the Global Invasive Species Database (GISD). The GISD is maintained by the ISSG and mirrored online in the United States by the ISIN. The 460+ invasive species profiles within the database provide descriptive information about invasive species of global importance, including photographs, ecology, distribution, management and control information, impacts, references and links, and contact information for experts on the species. The development of the GISD is an ongoing project, celebrating seven years of a successful partnership in 2009.